. History of Cheshire and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire. cticut for the maynten-ance of scollars at Cambridge. He was for sev-eral years member of the Legislature in NewHaven. Among his sons was Ebenezer, who re-moved to East Haddam, Conn., where he had ason, Justus, the maternal grandfather of the sub-ject of our sketch, and who emigrated with hiswife and ten children to Gilsum, N. H., between1770 and 1780 (date not certain). Asenath, his fourth daughter, born October 15,1766, married, in 1790, Jacob Smith, born in thepleasant old township of Middleborough, Mass., andson of John and Sarah
. History of Cheshire and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire. cticut for the maynten-ance of scollars at Cambridge. He was for sev-eral years member of the Legislature in NewHaven. Among his sons was Ebenezer, who re-moved to East Haddam, Conn., where he had ason, Justus, the maternal grandfather of the sub-ject of our sketch, and who emigrated with hiswife and ten children to Gilsum, N. H., between1770 and 1780 (date not certain). Asenath, his fourth daughter, born October 15,1766, married, in 1790, Jacob Smith, born in thepleasant old township of Middleborough, Mass., andson of John and Sarah (Chipman) Smith. Theyboth dying of small-pox when Jacob was but eightyears of age, he was early apprenticed to a shoe-maker. We have not the date of his removal to Lempster,but it was probably soon after his marriage. Hisdevotion to public interests is shown by the variousresponsible positions to which he was chosen byhis townsmen. He was their representative from1806 to 1814, and again in 1817. We learn hisloyalty to the polls by his being taken from his. LEMPSTER. 195 sick room of months and carried on a bed to casthis vote. He was deacon of the CongregationalChurch till 1822, when he moved to Potsdam,N. Y. There he was active in building up social,political, educational and religious interests in thethen new county of St. Lawrence. We do not wonder, then, that Alvah, fourth sonof Jacob and Asenath (Hurd) Smith, inheritingfrom the mother a vigorous constitution and strongwill-power, and from the father sound judgmentwith moderation, should possess a character worthya record in the history of the county. His early education was limited to the districtschool, never attending in summer after his ninthyear, remaining at home until eighteen, freelylending his assistance in the maintenance of thefamily, his father being in feeble health, with lim-ited means, pecuniarily, but rich in the love anddevotion of a wife and eight children ; of thoseeight but one is now living,—the young
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